100 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 



frazari for about a thousand miles from Ventura County, Calif., to 

 Abreojos Point, Lower California (Kaeding). 



Black Oyster- catcher. Hsematopus bachmani Aud. 



The coast of "western North America is the home of the black 

 oyster -catcher, and it breeds locally throughout its range from 

 Abreojos Point, Lower California (Kaeding), north to Prince Wil- 

 liam Sound, Alaska (Grinnell), and west to Attu Island (Turner) at 

 the western end of the Aleutian chain. It winters from the coast 

 of southern British Columbia (Fannin) southward. The short mi- 

 gration is performed during May, and the eggs are deposited at the 

 northern end of the range from the middle to the latter part of June. 

 This is also the time at which eggs are most commonly found at the 

 extreme southern end of the summer home. Downy young were 

 taken June 17, 1900, on Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia 

 (Osgood) . 



[Stone Curlew. (Edicnemus bistriatus (Wagler). 



The stone curlew is soxiiewhat generally, distributed throughout the lower portions 

 of Central America from Panama to southern Mexico, and also ranges into South 

 America north of the Amazon. It is nonmigratory.] 



Mexican Jacana. Jacana spinosa (Linn.). 

 The Mexican jacana was described originally from Cartagena, 

 Colombia, and as that remains still the only record for the country, 

 the ascription to this locality was probably an error. The species is 

 known from Divala, Panama (Bangs), and thence north on the 

 Pacific side to Mazatlan, Mexico (Lawrence), and on the Gulf side 

 to the mouth of the Rio Grande (Merrill). It is recorded from Porto 

 Rico (Gundlach), Haiti (Ritter), Jamaica (Denny), and Cuba (Vig- 

 ors) — rare in the first three and common in Cuba. One was taken 

 October, 1899, at Lake Okeechobee, Florida (Mearns) — first record for 

 the State. The species is resident throughout its regular range and 

 breeds for about half the year from March to September. 



[Black Jacana. Parra nigra (Gmel.). 

 The black jacana is a nonmigratory species inhabiting northern South America, 

 and occurring in southern Panama.] 



[Colombian Jacana. Parra melanopygia (Sclater). 

 A nonmigratory South American species found principally in Colombia, but ex- 

 tending north to Panama.] 



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